Lady Luck pitches and descent from the lower approach trail. With permission from Ryan Rounkles

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Lady Luck pitches and descent from the lower approach trail. With permission from Ryan Rounkles

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(Route Photo) WHY is this man smiling? As the wise, old climber he is: he's managed to belay, not lead, the crux pitch. (Note the all-nut trad belay.) [FA-er Larry DiAngelo on later ascent at the MtnPrjct Administrators get-together in Red Rocks]

Overview of Lady Luck and Big Sky routes.

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“Lady Luck pitches and descent from the lower approach trail. With permission from Ryan Rounkles”

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(Route Photo) WHY is this man smiling? As the wise, old climber he is: he's managed to belay, not lead, the crux pitch. (Note the all-nut trad belay.) [FA-er Larry DiAngelo on later ascent at the MtnPrjct Administrators get-together in Red Rocks]

Lady Luck pitches and descent from the lower approach trail. With permission from Ryan Rounkles

Overview of Lady Luck and Big Sky routes.

Higher up on the route

Lady Luck - Interactive 360°: https://go.ibex.fit/mp

Jessica heading left at the start of P5. Excellent views!

(START of Route) Mike belays P1 as Larry leads

"Small ledge system traversing left" on the way down (before rappels). This is actually the highest point reached during the route. Marked by several cairns.

4th pitch

Looking down the varnished corner of pitch 4. The belay at the top of pitch 4 is on the left. This picture was taken from near the beginning of the fifth pitch, above the large overhang.

The pitch 4 corner is the varnished dihedral on the right side of this alcove.

Top of pitch 5.

Mike further up the crux corner

Mike in the crux corner.

Mike tops out

Larry on first(?) rap in descent gully

Big Horn sheep - taken from near top of descent gully

P4 dihedral.

Looking down the Lady Luck slab from the top of the second pitch.

The upper slabs on pitch 6.

The bizarre rock on pitch 2.

Looking down the pitch 7 corner.

FA-er Larry DeAngelo starts off on P1 on a 2017 ascent

Looking down the first pitch.

Pitch 3.

looking down from the bottom of the last pitch

At the top of pitch 3

from the bottom of pitch 6

Looking up at P1

Partway up Pitch 5

The long pitch 6.

Approaching the final corner.

great exposure - beautiful views!

having fun near the top

Looking up at P1 from the base. We wandered back and forth along the cliff base a bit because we weren't sure where it started, but this ended up being correct!

Anchor at the top of P4, stepping right after the final crux move. Guidebook says to continue up another 20 ft or so of this arete and build the anchor level with the big roof but that stance looked less than inspiring. This allowed more room for 2 people

Top of pitch 6 slab. So cool!

Second rappel station. First rap was 100' second about 200', third was about 140' fourth was about 200' and Fifth was about 200'. All stations were bolted similar to this pic and easy to find. Thank you to whoever bolted this. Made the descent a breeze.

Pitch 6 hanging belay on right side of slab about 195'. Basically the only great gear on the pitch.

Hanging belay at the top of P6. There is a huge chicken head and a nice vertical crack for micros on the right side of the face about 60 ft. below hand crack on P7.

Gear anchor on P2. This was on the face above the big ledge.

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Jaime Curtis

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Ryan Rounkles

Eugene, OR

Maya Hamanishi

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